AOL guys, I see that a lot of you have gotten thrown off of CorvAircraft and KRnet due to AOL's crappy email system. The list has a feature that throws you off after a certain number of undeliverable messages (bounces) in a 48 hour period. The reason it does that is because if ISPs like AOL (it's the worst) get a whole lot of mail that is undeliverable with the same subject and from the same source, it assumes that it's "shotgun spam" that is sent to every conceivable email address, real or not. AOL will then block any email from that domain name (the list), and it's virtually impossible to get it unblocked. For that reason, the email list tries to keep from sending undeliverable mail, so after a few undelivered emails to your account, it says "gee I guess he changed screen names so I'll quit delivering to that address so AOL won't block everybody else's mail". But the real problem is that AOL is so busy (or has insufficient capacity) that it can't process mail fast enough (or something like that) so sometimes it rejects mail as undeliverable because it can't get to it. Then the list throws you off, and you get mad at ME! Sounds like a vicious circle to me. That happened to 25 people today, and a lot more last week, all of them on AOL.
To get back on, simply send an email to corvaircraft-j...@mylist.net or to krnet-j...@mylist.net and make sure to reply to the confirmation email message that you'll get a few minutes later. Here's what I'm going to do to try to keep this from happening again. Although the "bounce threshold" is already four times the recommended level (that takes care of most of the flaky ISPs), I'm going to increase it to a factor of 50. This will keep you from getting bounced off (and mad at ME), but it also runs the risk of all AOL users NEVER recieving krnet or CorvAircraft mail if AOL adds mylist.net to their blocked spam list. Sound far-fetched? It's exactly what happened to the last incarnation of KRnet. I'm tired of fooling around with AOL, so maybe this will take care of it, one way or the other... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
